If it was just North Korea that we needed to worry about. I would agree, but they have shown that they are willing to sell anything to the highest bidder. That pushes into the realm of our business.
The down side to an enjoyment of strategy games is that those of us who are really good at them start thinking in 'plausibles' of opposing actions.
1. To "push the button" is an endgame, stalemate, no winners, multiple opponents because all players engage, nothing gained, only lost.
1a. As long as a nuke flies through the air, the world wide counter measures will take place thus rendering option 1 above, and obsolete solution for domination.
2. If a nuke is detonated at ground level, on enemy soil, the counter measures do not take place, but yes it does catch the attention of "all players on the table".
2a. "The players", have a common dislike for one particular player, (i.e. The United States of America) for various reasons, most of which we'll likely never fully understand or comprehend.
3. By opening one's own doors, after having selectively moved certain above mentioned items, in an act to "gain trust, albeit limited", potential other gateways open toward the target.
3a. Trade routes become common because "peace" is being achieved under what can only be mediatedly perceived as a new leader willing to 'break the reign his crazy father once held'..... the illusion setting in to establish a "comfort zone".
4. Commerce, trade back and forth, jobs created, things relax and then.....................................
4a. Strategic detonation of above mentioned in multiple locations to cut supply lines, weaken defense and otherwise scatter a once strong nation into confusion and chaos.
5. FBOTG.... 'foreign boots on the ground'. N. Korea sends hundreds of thousands of troops in an attempt to 'secure & conquer'.
5a. They have the capability, the population, and the cunning to pull this off..... yet so many don't see the plausibility.
Its just a theory, just a potential from the mind of someone who really enjoys strategy games, but when that mindset is put to real world thinking the possiblities do indeed scare me. But as I said, its just something to think about.
